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Tag: Biopic

  • The Theory of Everything (2014)

    The Theory of Everything (2014)

    Stephen Hawking, the brilliant theoretical physicist betrayed by his own body and confined to a wheelchair is given the biopic treatment in director James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything.  Hawking is a master in his field and the success he has achieved in the face of such physical limitations is…

  • American Sniper (2014)

    American Sniper (2014)

    For someone so well-known for westerns, war films, and being Dirty Harry on-screen, Clint Eastwood is a surprisingly versatile director, even tackling the musical genre earlier in 2014 with a Broadway adaptation, Jersey Boys.  Eastwood made his directorial debut in 1971, 44 years ago.  In that time he has helmed 34 feature…